Count Foulques of Venaissin

Count Foulques of Venaissin (26 January 1312-) was the ruler of the Comtat Venaissin enclave of the Papal States in southern France.

Biography
Foulques was born on 26 January 1312 to the House de Chateauneuf-du Pape, a family that ruled the namesake town to the north of Avignon in the Comtat Venaissin enclave of the Papal States in southern France. Foulques served as Marshal of the Papal States under Pope Boniface XI, and he took part in the conquest of Aprutium from the Kingdom of Naples in 1337-38, which led to him being granted the whole Comtat Venaissin county. Pope Boniface married him to Countess Amalia of Venaissin, an Italian woman at his court in Rome, and Foulques became a happy vassal of the Pope.